غرو

Core meaning

To set one against another: to unleash a hostility that clings to those it targets and no longer leaves them.

Uses

1. فَأَغْرَيْنَا, لَنُغْرِيَنَّكَ → "to unleash among", "to unleash against" : always God, in answer to a failing: He fastens hostility upon a group, or unleashes His messenger against those who do not cease.

   • «فَأَغْرَيْنَا بَيْنَهُمُ ٱلْعَدَاوَةَ وَٱلْبَغْضَآءَ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ» — "We then unleashed among them enmity and hatred, until the Day of Appearance" (5:14)
   • «لَنُغْرِيَنَّكَ بِهِمْ» — "We will certainly unleash you against them" (33:60)

Evidence from the text

Both uses are answers. In 5:14, hostility is unleashed after those who took the solemn engagement "forgot a share of what they had been reminded of"; it lasts "until the Day of Appearance". In 33:60, the threat follows a condition: if the hypocrites and the rumor-mongers "do not cease". The word therefore does not describe a discord that already existed: it says what is unleashed, and clings.

Distinctions

• عدو — hostility itself, what is unleashed; غرو names the gesture that unleashes it